Nick Carter Won’t Be Charged in Sexual Assault Case, L.A. District Attorney Says

An alleged sexual assault case against the Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter has been declined by the Los Angeles district attorney, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The DA’s office reportedly declined to pursue charges against Carter because the statute of limitations had passed. The alleged incident took place in 2003, and a police report was filed in February 2018. Carter had vehemently denied the accusation. While the accuser was not named in the police report, Melissa Schuman, a former member of the girl group Dream posted Feb. 7 on Twitter that she was “filing a police report... I’m finally doing what I thought I could no longer do.” In a November 2017 blog post, Schuman accused Carter of forcing her to perform oral sex on him and raping her. She later told The Daily Beast that she thought the “smartest thing to do was to do nothing” at the time because she feared going public would stop production of a movie she was working on. “Not only was I assaulted, I was now at risk of that experience completely destroying my dreams,” she said. “What do you do in that situation?” After the DA announced that Carter would not be charged, Schuman said in a statement that she was “well aware of the likelihood that my case was not prosecutable.” “It gives me great solace to know that my testimony is fully documented, investigated and sealed for the future if needed by law enforcement.”